How many people today grab a takeaway coffee cup from the local cafe to drink on the go? We don’t know, but the number must be enormous.. Most every one of the above have a plastic top that will last 100s of years. Some cafes still use plastic cups that last a similar time. Is 10 minutes of coffee worth 100s of years of trash?
These items can be seen littering our gutters and on our streets all over the place. If they were all cardboard, they would still be littered, but they would, at least, be gone in a short time.
They do not need to be made of plastic.
On the way home from the gym last week, a distance of about 1 km (1/2 mile), I counted the items of plastic litter on the curb as I walked. In that short distance I counted 63 pieces of plastic litter. Plastic drink bottles, bottle tops, candy wrappers, plastic film, polystyrene fragments etc. That seemed to be a lot to me. I guess it is a generational thing. Our parents would have been horrified to see that amount, whereas it seems to go unnoticed by our youth of today. In another 20 years how many pieces will there be on this stretch, -- 200? What will today’s youth think of that new amount then when they are older? Will their children be so readily accepting of a higher amount of litter? 
Boomerang Bags reduce plastic waste in the Illawarra- Australia
Posted on May 18, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife
Illawarra young people have discovered a love for sewing and ironing to make Boomerang Bags.
Source: Boomerang Bags reduce plastic waste in the Illawarra
Why Boomerang Bags need to be made
The projections for how much waste will be in the ocean in the next 35 years are significant and worrying.
Megan Rowlatt is the founder of Illawarra Intrepid Landcare, and said there is eight million tonnes of rubbish entering our ocean every year.
She said, by 2050, there was likely to be more plastic in the marine environment than fish unless drastic action is taken.
There was also the concern for non-biodegradable plastic bags releasing toxins into soil and water.
“It’s an out of sight, out of mind thing … when the plastic breaks up into smaller pieces it becomes invisible,” she said.
“The science hasn’t caught up yet to what the impact of that is.”
Small pieces of plastic are easily confused for jellyfish and can be eaten by marine life, eventually killing them.
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